Yet another biohazard idea: Psionic Giant Jellyfish

[NerdyVampire]

Announcement: Level 7 biohazard alert
Unidentified lifeform detected in critical range of the SCCV Horizon. Anomalous wave signals have begun flooding the vessel. All crew must eliminate the biohazard.. yadada

Threat:
A psionic creature (approximate shape of a giant jellyfish) attaches itself to the hull and is starting to feed off the psionic energy of the organic crew. It imposes headaches and other small effects at first, the longer it stays the more serious its effects. Skrell are possibly either more vulnerable to its waves, or more resistant - not sure which makes more sense.

It spawns in one tile, the 8 tiles around it becomes its bulbous body which protects it sort of like a blob, except it does not really grow?

Medicine:
Mental medicine can actually be used to protect from these waves and offset their effects.

Science:
Certain guns made in research can disable its psionic waves and/or make it leave peacefully.

Security:
Of course, going to the jelly and shooting it until it dies also works. 

Loot:
Killing it yields 3-6 space liberty duff.

Making it leave peacefully yields a wave of positive psionic feelings, flooding the vessel for a little while.

[Fyni]

Obligatory Rimworld reference.

[Carver]

Would this medicine protect against Skrell and other psionicists?

[NerdyVampire]

On 15/03/2024 at 04:35, Carver said:

Would this medicine protect against Skrell and other psionicists?

I'm not proposing new medicine actually, I just know there is a lot that is meant to counteract mental issues, so maybe it could work here? But if it doesn't, then yeah maybe something that dampens psionic influence.